Ergebnis für "Reconstruction" in Literatur & Belletristik

Wohl nie waren so viele berühmte Schriftsteller und Reporterinnen aus aller Welt unter einem Dach versammelt wie in Nürnberg 1946. Sie kamen, um zu berichten – von den Gräueln des Krieges und des Holocaust, die dort vor Gericht verhandelt wurden. Sie wohnten und schrieben auf Schloss Faber-Castell, diskutierten, tanzten, verzweifelten, tranken. Uwe Neumahr erzählt ihre Geschichte in seinem aufregenden und bewegenden Buch. Erich Kästner war in Nürnberg und Erika Mann, John Dos Passos und Martha Gellhorn. Augusto Roa Bastos kam aus Paraguay, Xiao Qian aus China.

In Reconstruction, a young girl plays the part of her missing school friend, Josie Farraday, in the police reconstruction of the day she disappeared.

Bites don't infect...but anyone who dies, turns. Skilled outdoorsman Tom Vanicek wants a future for the two children he's protected so fiercely through five years of living hell. Now a part of the reconstruction efforts in the decaying ruins of Columbus, Ohio, the Vanicek family see the risks (and the rewards) of their new life. Tom tries to keep to himself so he and his children can get ahead. But danger's never far away...and Tom's done playing it safe.

Encapsulating the prolific work of the poet and playwright Zbigniew Herbert, Reconstruction of the Poet is both a celebration of a profound life of letters and a wide-ranging collection of work never published before that casts a new light on a much loved poet. Spanning 1950-1998, Reconstruction of the Poet contains three plays - The Philosophers Cave The Other Room, and Reconstruction of the Poet - and over fifty poems.

"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies - and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer's shortcomings.

This poetry book speaks to many levels of relationships. It reads like a story and will take you through a journey of someone being in love, marital bliss to a feeling of betrayal and broken heartedness. The back-and-forth feelings is one that many could relate to. In order to get your life back, one must have a time of reconstruction. Center yourself, focus on the divine higher power and love yourself. You will be taken on a poetically written journey as you enjoy, learn, cry, meditate and lose yourself in the moment in poetry and for some, it will help with your healing process.

The prepper fellowship of the bugged-out lake community survivors faces a dilemma they never expected until now. The few young adults still left in the little colony have decided they need to move on and make their own paths. Who will help cut the firewood and help break ground for next season's crops so these prepper geriatrics don't fall out with a heart attack or something trying to do it all by hand? This collection contains two books: Fades the Light and A Diary of a Kudzu Salesman.

The Western Maryland, Garret family, struggle to maintain their farm as their neighbors argue the slavery issue. They live in a border state where folks take both sides and emotions run hot. Their stoic matriarch, known only as "Mother" holds the family together in the absence of her dead husband. The deceased patriarch, Valentine, was a giant of a man both in stature and character. He acts as the family conscience and mentor throughout the novel. It is his admonition that people who get snakebit think and act crazy which is how he viewed the state of the country when he died.

De Tweede Wereldoorlog heeft niet alleen diepe sporen getrokken door onze samenleving, maar ook geleid tot een nog altijd doorgaande stroom aan gepubliceerde getuigenissen en herinneringen. Tal van schrijvers hebben eigen ervaringen en die van anderen verwerkt in romans, verhalen, toneelstukken, poëzie en autobiografisch proza. In deze serie colleges laat Jaap Goedegebuure zien hoe zich in de Nederlandstalige literatuur van de afgelopen vijfenzeventig jaar een ontwikkeling heeft voltrokken.

In the near future, America is grappling with a dual internal conflict: recovering from a devastating Civil War and confronting the severe impacts of climate change. The main character, Oliver Howard, a war veteran, along with his young partner Ruth Freeman, is part of a new bureaucracy tasked with rescuing endangered citizens from what they have been told are hostile communities affected by climate change and historical racial tensions. However, while conducting their official duties, unbeknownst to them, a greater spiritual purpose underlies their assignments, with invisible forces both ...

Une maisonnette biscornue en plein cœur de la Bourgogne, Muriel tombe immédiatement sous son charme. Ce lieu émouvant et paisible devient son refuge. Elle y apprivoise ses peurs et empêchements de toujours : marcher seule en forêt, assumer son désir d'écriture. Dans sa boîte à outils, un panthéon d'inspiratrices telles que Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras ou encore Mona Chollet, les conseils de ses amis et voisins, ses souvenirs d'enfance, les lettres de sa chère grand-mère disparue.

Author Ron Foster concludes the classic Prepper Trilogy, ten years after a solar geomagnetic storm takes out the electrical grid and reduces the population by 90%. The prepper fellowship of the bugged out lake community survivors faces a dilemma they never expected until now.

The characters from the classic Prepper Trilogy have moved from their survival retreat on the lake and have taken up city living in one of the FEMA reconstruction towns. The government is attempting to jump start the economy once more after a solar storm took down the grid and the economy 10 long years ago. Politics and a religious cult leader who is a decedent of a Kudzu salesman threaten to upset the survivor's plans to restart their lives as the stresses of rejoining civilization mount.

A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post - Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.

Une ode à l'amitié. Le Jardin des Cybèles est une maison de repos qui accueille des personnes abîmées par la vie. Cet été, elle ouvre ses portes à deux nouvelles pensionnaires : Valérie et Anna. Quelques jours après leur arrivée, elles font la connaissance de Charline, la propriétaire d'une pâtisserie voisine. Ce lieu chaleureux devient un véritable refuge pour les deux femmes, qui adorent s'y retrouver pour déguster des gâteaux tout en bavardant.